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OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Terra, halving costs and targeting vision/writing tasks

OpenAI has launched GPT-6.1 Terra, a new model designed for tasks involving computer vision and writing. This model is priced at $1 per million input tokens and $5 per million output tokens, making it half the cost of the GPT-6.1 Sol model. While it matches GPT-6 Astra on the Agents' Last Exam benchmark, its coding capabilities still lag behind Claude Sonnet 5.5. AI

IMPACT This release offers a lower-cost option for vision and writing tasks, potentially increasing adoption for specific AI applications.

RANK_REASON Frontier-lab model release with system card. [lever_c_demoted from frontier_release: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Terra, halving costs and targeting vision/writing tasks

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    OpenAI has released GPT-6.1 Terra, a fast model for computer use, vision and writing, priced at 1 USD per million input tokens and 5 USD per million output toke

    OpenAI has released GPT-6.1 Terra, a fast model for computer use, vision and writing, priced at 1 USD per million input tokens and 5 USD per million output tokens, half the cost of GPT-6.1 Sol. On OpenAI's own benchmarks it matches GPT-6 Astra on the Agents' Last Exam at 0.29 USD…